Guest Cindy B Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Hi- Just a quick question; we are a local gov and are preparing to bring our web server in-house. My questions is - what are recommended server specs? I guess I'm looking for a reliable source, I have found some info on the web, but not finding anything that I feel is real reliable or unbiased. Has anyone have any current recommendations - or sites they could recommend to find a recommendation? We will be running IIS, with some look up capabilites. - thanks in advance for your help or suggestions!.... -- Cindy B
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: IIS server hardware specs Hello, hardware is used to meet workload. When people doesn't know their workload, they buy bigs servers hoping it will do the job... Let's say 2Ghz and 2GB of ram, 146GB of disks After, it will depends mainly on: website technology (C# ?) Memory used by the application pool number of simultaneous users using SSL (https) (take cpu) Microsoft minimum requirement are much smaller: Windows Server 2003, Web Edition: System requirements http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/beef11c1-0739-46df-8498-8e50b7b5fd4b1033.mspx?mfr=true I prefer to scale with two smaller web server than just a big one (as it introduce high availability, no single point of failure) You should make load test on your dev machine to determine if it's hardware meets your business goal (displaying pages in less than 2s with 25 users on it...) You may use opensta to make load (open source), for example. Making load test takes time but it's the better way to find you real needs for your own application. -- Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com "Cindy B" <benedett@brainerd.net> wrote in message news:2DD27288-0299-4CEE-89F7-10D5B736DC10@microsoft.com... > Hi- > Just a quick question; we are a local gov and are preparing to bring our > web > server in-house. My questions is - what are recommended server specs? I > guess I'm looking for a reliable source, I have found some info on the > web, > but not finding anything that I feel is real reliable or unbiased. Has > anyone have any current recommendations - or sites they could recommend to > find a recommendation? > We will be running IIS, with some look up capabilites. > - thanks in advance for your help or suggestions!.... > -- > Cindy B
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